Can XML-RPC methods be called by name (as strings) in Python?
In python, calling XML-RPC methods involves invoking methods on a proxy object: from xmlrpclib import ServerProxy print ServerProxy('https://example.com/rpc').api.hello_there('John') In some other languages, like perl, you pass your method name as a method parameter. use Frontier::Client; $p = Frontier::Client->new(url => 'https://example.com/rpc'); $result = $p->call('api.hello_there', 'John'); print $result; Is there a way to invoke XML-RPC methods by name, as strings, in Python? Just use getattr , as with any Python object. func = getattr(ServerProxy('https://example.com/rpc'), "api.hello